The Lord reveals His laws pertaining to servants, marriage, the death penalty for various offenses, the giving of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and the damage done by oxen.
1 Now these are the
judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew
servant, six years he shall serve: and I the seventh he shall go out free for
nothing.
3 If he came in by
himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go
out with him.
4 If his master have
given him a wife, and he have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her
children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant
shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go
out free:
6 Then his master shall
bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the
door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall
serve him for ever.
7 And if a man sell his
daughter to be a maidservant, she will not go out as the menservants do.
8 If she please not her
master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed:
to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt
deceitfully with her.
9 And if he have
betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters.
10 If he take him
another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11 And if he do not
these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
12 He that smiteth a
man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
13 And if a man lie not
in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place
whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him
from mine altar, that he may die.
15 And he that smiteth
his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
16 And he that stealeth
a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put
to death.
17 And he that curseth
his father, or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18 And if men strive
together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not,
but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again,
and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he
shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly
healed.
20 And if a man smite,
his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be
surely punished.
21 Notwithstanding, if
he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
22 If men strive, and
hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief
follow: he shall surely be punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay
upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
23 And if any mischief
follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
24 Eye for eye, tooth
for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning,
wound for wound, stripe for stripe,
26 And if a man smite
the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let
him go free for his eye’s sake.
27 And if he smite out
his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free
for his tooth’s sake.
28 If an ox gore a man
or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh
shal not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were
wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his
owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he that killed a man or a woman;
the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
30 If there be laid on
him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is
laid upon him.
31 Whether he have
gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be
done unto him.
32 If the ox push a
manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of
silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
33 And if a man shall
open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass
fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit
shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast
shall be his.
35 And if one man’s ox
hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the
money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.
36 Or if it be known
that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in;
he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.
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